Re: curses/termcap (was gdbm vs db)

[H J Lu <hjl@zoom.com>]

> 
> > I have only one reservation. The termcap emulation in ncurses
> > is huge compared with libtermcap. For some applications, I
> > am not sure if I want those baggaes.
> 
> It may be huge, but it's in a shared library.  Even if it does waste a
> little extra memory, I think it's worth it not to have to support
> multiple terminal databases.
> 

I need a working,  statically linked gdb since I don't want to use a
dynamally linked gdb to debug a shared library. termcap from ncurses
is huge and buggy. That is what triggered me to make termcap 2.0.5.
If we CAN use it for gdb, I will have nothing against it.


H.J.